Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 77
The King answered, "Gladly would I avenge you if I might, but I can do nothing against these men."
Who acts: King · What happens: answer, avenge, do · To what, where: you, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 avenge | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 would | punct |
| 6 | Gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 7 would | advmod |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 avenge | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 avenge | nsubj |
| 9 | avenge | avenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 avenge | obj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 might | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 might | nsubj |
| 13 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 avenge | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 do | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 do | obj |
| 20 | against | against | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 men | det |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 nothing | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | avenge in a quote | would | the King = king | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | can | the King = king | nothing | against this men | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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